The old house, a relic of a forgotten era, held a timeless charm for Anya. Exploring the overgrown garden, a flash of red caught her eye. She crouched down, her fingers tracing the outline of a buried metal box. Her heart skipped a beat, a lightness filling her chest. She needed to know what was inside.

She wrestled with the lid, her muscles straining, until finally, it yielded. Inside, a collection of postcards. Each depicted a different exotic locale, each a whisper of a forgotten dream. Anya’s eyes darted between the cards, her breath catching in her throat, a vibrant energy beginning to course through her veins.

Emotion: stimulated

Cluster: Alertness
PC1 (Valence): 0.38 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stimulated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 stimulated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stimulated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stimulated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
own0.317
T0.312
intensity0.280
S0.271
inesis0.265
Suppressed:
a-0.640
l-0.434
la-0.392
que-0.378
fact-0.354